Husband and wife are hot on the kang

But no matter how difficult things are, they are not less difficult than Juren, right?

This guy started to toss at that time!

Isn't it because there are too many apricots to eat?

This is easy to do!

If you can't eat it, make it into something that can be stored for a long time!

Can't all fresh fruit be made into preserves?

"Candied fruit?" Shi Hongda thought for a while, "But honey is very expensive!"

The north is not good at raising bees, and honey is much more expensive than the south. If it is made into candied fruit, honey must be preserved to improve the taste.

So many apricots, but a lot of honey.

Shi Hongda suddenly felt that the gain outweighed the loss!

"What kind of honey do you use? You can't use that thing!" Yu Liangji waved his hand.

"You don't need honey to make candied fruit?" It was the first time he heard: "Do you use sugar?"

It seems that sugar is not cheap, especially white sand, which is more expensive. Brown sugar seems to be used by women, right?

"Don't worry, what I make are licorice apricots, not candied apricots." Candied apricots are too much trouble, not as convenient as licorice apricots, and licorice apricots are also better than candied apricots.

When he made licorice apricots, he went to Zhibian with his mentor back then. In the fellow’s home, apricots were also flooded. The mentor solved this problem together with him, and guided the fellow to a new way to make a fortune!

Because the place is too barren and everything is not complete, he has no place to buy vanillin to keep the licorice apricot from spoiling. His mentor taught him a trick, using natural preservatives!

In fact, to put it bluntly, the production process of this natural preservative is not simple. It is to use the white wine or rice wine of the imperial capital, grind white rice into powder, mix them together, steam them, dry them in the sun, and then finely grind them into powder, it is a natural preservative!

This stuff is no worse than expensive vanillin, and it has no side effects!

Like vanillin, it can deodorize and preserve food, and it can increase the quality of food!

Therefore, the fellow villagers there played the signboard of "pure natural green" and quickly made a fortune, but they were honest and honest, even if the supply of licorice and apricots was in short supply, they would never put other things in. The secret of getting rich in their village is to mail a lot of licorice and apricots to their mentor every year.

"This...?" Shi Hongda has never heard of licorice and apricot. He does know that licorice is a kind of medicinal material, and this medicinal material is very common and can reconcile all kinds of medicines. However, it is said that there are several medicinal materials that are against him. What's up?Seems like you've learned it before?

Oh, algae halberds are all war grass!

The third sentence in Eighteen Antipodes!

But I haven't heard that it can make food!

"Anyway, I can't eat it, so it's better to use waste!" Yu Liangji quickly turned against Shi Hongda: "Trust me, if you do well, it will be fine for the Chinese New Year!"

After autumn, the Northland will quickly dry out and cool down. At that time, everything is easy to preserve. Put it in a jar and seal it well. When it is cold, put it in the warehouse. It is no problem to store it at low temperature until the New Year!

"Do you want to make canned food?" Shi Hongda thought of a possibility, so that the fruit can be eaten at the time of the new year, so there are only canned food left, but no one has ever made canned apricot.

"No, it's licorice and apricot!" Yu Liangji emphasized, one of the canned goods produced by Su, who traveled through the past, was to supply the army with fruits for them to eat during the journey; way out.

Canned fruit is very famous, not only popular among ordinary people, but also sold overseas!

But it has nothing to do with his licorice apricot!

"Don't worry, I'm sure I can do it well!" Yu Liangji even resorted to acting coquettishly.

"Okay, what do you want me to do?" Shi Hongda had no choice but to nod his head in agreement, but he agreed because he thought it would cost him the most money.

His salary was also paid, which was accumulated and sent directly to his bank account by someone from above. It is not comparable to the bonus of the court for one thing less than Juren, but it is still enough to support a whole family. We are all children.

Moreover, his superiors gave him excellent affirmation for his work, and there was a lot of money in bonuses.

"Buy me some clean and unused jars, with an airtight cork as a lid, and some beeswax, so that they can be used to seal the jars." Yu Liangji started his own big plan: "Also For some things, I will give you a list tomorrow, and you can buy according to the items on it."

"Okay!" Shi Hongda nodded: "Then I will go to the county seat tomorrow."

The next day Shi Hongda took Batu and Liu Wenxi out of the house, and Yu Liangji gave him an order to buy them.

Liu Wenxi is unhappy again!

The apricots at home are all kept in a cool place, and there is a limit to eating them. Even children are watched to prevent them from eating too much.

After dinner, Yu Liangji took Yu Baobao for a walk in the yard to digest food, and then went to take a bath in a while, and then he could go to sleep on the kang.

"Uncle, why do other people's homes have apricots, but ours doesn't?" Yu Baobao took Yu Liangji for a stroll in the yard, and asked about his little doubts.

"Because the apricot tree in our family was only planted this year, when the baby is in the first class, he will be able to eat apricots." Yu Liangji answered the child's question.

Yu Liangji took a closer look. The apricot trees in their village are typical northeast apricot trees.

This kind of apricot tree is a variant of the wild apricot tree. I don’t know how many years it took to become what it is today. This kind of apricot tree has a well-developed root system, a strong tree, rapid growth, sprouting power, and strong cold resistance. Ability to tolerate drought and poor soil.

It can even grow in clear saline-alkali soil, which is stronger than ordinary fruit trees.

But this kind of fruit tree is not tolerant to waterlogging and does not like the environment with high air temperature.

But it is very sunny, suitable for growing in sandy soil with good drainage, and Aunt Qiao's house has a bit of sandy soil. Their house is a saline-alkali land, but it is not too serious. In addition, when the trees were planted at that time, He has reserved enough base fertilizer.

It blooms in the same year after planting, but it takes four to five years to bear fruit.

This kind of fruit tree has a very long life span, generally 40 to 60 years or more.

While explaining the truth to the baby, Yu Liangji carefully observed it, and even at dusk the next day, on the pretext of paying back the gift, he took Shi Hongda with him and went door-to-door Visited at home and observed it by the way.

Most of the apricots in the village will be hung on the trees until they are ripe, and then they will be pecked by poultry, or swallowed by livestock, and even some apricots will be rotten and turned into ashes in remote corners.

Yu Juren personally visited the door, which made many people feel radiant!

But for Liangji, he had a lot of emotions. He obviously had such good apricots, but he couldn't sell them for a price, and he had to watch them rot, which was simply unbearable!

After returning home, he started to toss!

First of all, the family has a large tank ready to pickle sauerkraut in autumn. Because the population of the family has increased, the corresponding things have also increased a lot, and there are as many as four water tanks!

He requisitioned two large water tanks for pickling sauerkraut, washed them clean, dried them in the sun, sterilized them, and then began to pick apricots. About [-] catties of apricots were picked out here.

"Not enough, go collect 150 catties of apricots!" Yu Liangji rolled up his sleeves and weighed the apricots, not enough, far from enough.

At least one hundred kilograms of apricots are needed at a time, that is, two hundred catties, which is only fifty catties, which is not enough for pickling once.

"...!!" Liu Wenxi looked at Shi Hongda.

After coming to the house for so long, he has figured out who is the real head of the family, and he has a vague feeling that Shi Hongda is not an easy person.

Whose house do you see who borrows so peacefully that he can be the master of the house?

"Okay, if you accept it, how much is it per catty?" Shi Hongda wiped his face and asked Yu Liangji.

"...How would I know!" Yu Liangji muttered in a low voice, the others were far away from him and couldn't hear clearly, but Shi Hongda could hear it.

"Forget it, I'll do it!" Shi Hongda simply decided on his own.

They took Liu Wenxi out and led the ox cart for a round, and when they came back, they pulled back 150 catties of ripe apricots from the ox cart, and all of them were big and round, obviously they had been selected!

"Can you see if this works?" They were picked by others personally. Everyone in the village knew that Xiao Juren wanted to buy apricots and try to make preserved fruits.

"Okay!" Yu Liangji quickly asked someone to wash and drain it with water.

Fortunately, it was this time of summer, and the water evaporated quickly. Yu Liangji put one hundred catties of apricots into a large vat, and added thirty catties of salt. His family contracted the salt for the grocery store in the village.

Because the solubility of salt is low, the salt should be added evenly and stirred once every three to five days.

For apricots with high maturity, more salt should be added to make the apricot flesh solidify quickly and prevent softening. Continuous pickling can add less salt.

Generally, the pickling time is based on one week, and salt is added according to the maturity of the apricots. According to the pickling situation, the longest pickling time should not exceed one month.

The apricots here are thick, and the apricot flesh has been condensed for a long time. Someone has been stirring the apricots in the big vat according to the young master's instructions. After ten days, they are taken out to dry.

For God's sake, during the four days of drying, there was no cloudy and rainy day, which made Yu Liangji very happy, because if it was cloudy, he would have to move things into the house to dry, the baked dried apricots The color is not as bright as the dried one.

After drying in the sun, put the inside of the tank into a large tank, rinse with clean water, and change the water every three hours until there is basically no salty smell.

Then I added 24 catties of water to the four catties of licorice bought back, boiled it twice and filtered it to get ordinary liquorice liquid, took out the dried lemons and boiled water, and finally got four catties of lemonade, citric acid needs to be refined, so Liangji didn't want to refine it, so he just did it, mixed the two together, stirred deeply, sprayed it evenly on the dried apricots with a watering can, and then took it out to dry.

When drying in the sun, Yu Liangji also boiled out the natural preservatives by the way.

Dissolve three catties of salt in six catties of water, spray the surface of the apricots with spirits, dry them in the sun, and finally mix the produced natural preservative at a rate of one or two per hundred catties, mix well, and then put it on the Put it into the jar newly bought by Shi Hongda, vacuum the mouth of the jar with fire gas, seal it with beeswax, and put it in a cool cellar for storage!

The cellar at home is behind the back room. It was originally used to store autumn vegetables such as potatoes, cabbage and radishes, but now it stores licorice and apricots for the time being.

"That's the end of it?" After tossing for a long time, I thought I could eat it right away!

"I can let you taste the rest!" Yu Liangji waved his hand vigorously: "This is the process of making licorice apricot, do you remember it?"

"Remember!" Everyone replied with great strength.

It's a hot day, the little master is so tossing, who can't remember!

"That's good, let's see if anyone still has apricots? Give me back some more!" Yu Liangji is addicted to cooking. There are not many licorice apricots made from two hundred catties of apricots, but he saw so many apricots in the village. He was even more reluctant to waste it in vain!

Everyone looked at Shi Hongda in unison: "Young master did this, why don't you say something?"

"Take a break first, everyone is tired." Shi Hongda said as expected, and changed the subject casually.

Seeing everyone's sweaty faces, Yu Liangji finally felt a little embarrassed. As soon as he started to do something, he didn't care about it. He really should let everyone have a rest. Don't suffer from heatstroke in such a hot weather!

"Okay, everyone, take a rest today!" Yu Liangji smiled and followed suit.